CORMORANTS AND KRUPP'S.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 19 May 1916, Page 8

CORMORANTS AND KRUPP'S.

liv a .spweli at. the Royal Institution Loudon, in Professor Sir J. J. Thomson roferrefl to a t-cheme sent lor consideration to tile board which deals with tt-.u- inventions. The inventor. 1m said, had obc-errect birds peeking mortar, and his idea was to obtain a flock of cormorant.s—eh«sen presumably because, of their great appetites —and to (rain them to IV wl hw putting their Food in horizontal ititul vertical lines against a wall. The idea was that #ie birds might associate those lines with thenfood. They were then to he taken to Essen and liberated, and they would attack the great chimneys at Krupp's Works wiifli ,*ich vigor as to destroy them. "I hope," said the professor, '•'that T shall not get into trouble for divulging important secrets of use to tlio enemy."—(Laughter.)